まだです

coming out of a shell.

But, perhaps, not yet.

Three golden tickets were given to Tokyo.

Her English put her fourth in line.
After three months, I have spent hours listening to those four and a half minutes of (what seemed to be) flawless English.

Those four and a half minutes of a speech about her host family reminded me of my own.

This afternoon, a lovely lunch with a brilliant teenager who is 10 years my junior and a beautiful woman who is some years my senior tucked me right back into the feeling of my comforting Czech bed.